Friday, October 22, 2010

Blog Entry 4.1 – IFS H/W Infrastructure

 

In the image above with the use of a keyboard you use input technology and type the data HELLO, the information then travels through the connected system unit. From the Central Processing Unit a Processing Technology interprets the data and translates it into binary codes. As you type on your keyboard it changes to binary data, the ALU and Control Unit use the ASCII code as a means to turn it into binary data and store it in secondary Storage. Theses electrical impulses of on and off data, before being stored is organized into bits and bytes. There are eight bits in a byte. So when you type the message the information is presented on the Output Technology which would be the monitor.

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